The Third Sector and the Multi Area Agreement Employment and Skills Shona Duncan Employment Manager

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The Third Sector and the Multi Area
AgreementEmployment and SkillsShona
DuncanEmployment Manager
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The landscape

• City Strategy Pathfinder
• Multi Area Agreement
• Employment and Skills Board

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Why?

• Greater devolution-recognising and addressing
  local need
• Improved governance, statutory Employment and
  Skills Board
• Influence national policy
• Increase our ability to deliver more, faster
• Long term change
• Clearer roles and accountability at local level
• Celebrating success

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City Region Employment and Skills

• Three elements
• Partnership Employer Client

• One employability framework
• One set of targets across City Region
• Clear funding streams for specific delivery
• Strategic development transforms delivery

• Single access point
• Available workforce
• Support when required
• Clear sign posting

• Accessible support
• Action plans
• Progression
• Individually tailored
• Early identification of routeways

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City Strategy Pathfinder

• Raise employment rate
• Address worklessness
• Focus on deprived areas
• Simplify the landscape
• Address duplication
• Joint Service Planning
• Closer working with DWP

• Partnership Working
• Employer
• Individual

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MAA-Actions and Asks

• Actions
• Integration of employment and skills
• All ages
• Joint service planning
• Influence national policy-all departments
• Identifying local need
• Ask of ourselves

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MAA-Actions and Asks

• Asks
• 14-19 clustering
• HEFCE-Colleges to deliver units of degrees
• Train to Gain level 4 flexibility
• Co-commissioning
• Statutory Employment and Skills Board

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Delivery

• Employer engagement
• Directory of services
• Disadvantaged Areas Funding
• Target setting, measuring performance
• Hanlon
• Funding
• Co-commissioning
• Governance- Demand Led Employment and Skills
  Board

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The third sector

• Increasing critical role-initial and continuing
  engagement
• Service delivery
• Prime and Sub-contractors
• Client knowledge
• Mentoring
• Productive activity
• Linkage to additional providers
• Evaluation of what really works well
• City Region voice

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Thank you Contact details Shona.duncan_at_northtynes
ide.gov.uk Tel [phone] Mob [phone]